President Alberto Fernández maintained that “nobody wants” to suffer an attack like the one suffered by Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and reiterated his warning for the sectors that “promote a confrontational and hate speech that penetrates the heads of many people.”
In dialogue with the media that followed the tour of the official delegation in the United Statesincluding Télam, the president refrained from commenting on the cause that investigates the attack against the Vice President but asked “not to minimize” the fact.
When referring to speech he gave before the 77th UN General Assemblythe president expressed that “after the pandemic a very great social discouragement has been generated throughout the world, and that is taken advantage of by reactive sectors, sometimes more to the left, sometimes more to the right, but those on the right prevail, and they promote a confrontational and hate speech that penetrates the heads of many people”.
For this reason, he was interested in “regulating the use of social networks in some way” so that on these platforms “violent and hate speech stops circulating.”
“No one wants what happened to Cristina; no one wants it to happen to anyone,” the president insisted.
Along these lines, he recalled that “there were people who went and threw lit torches at the Casa Rosada, mortuary bags.”
“They put a guillotine in which I appeared every few minutes hanging in Plaza de Mayo,” he recalled.
In this regard, he asked “to understand that this is not good for a society, but that it is definitely bad.”
In this aspect, he pointed out that “seeing a group of people who spoke to each other with the coldness with which they spoke is something that worries”, in reference to the gang accused of the assassination attempt against the vice president.
“No one wants what happened to Cristina; no one wants it to happen to anyone”
Also he alluded, without naming him, to former president Mauricio Macri, stating that “we cannot minimize it by saying that they are a group of crazy people”.
Macri, precisely, had expressed himself in that sense, warning that those responsible for the attack against the former president were “loose crazy people.”
“What happened is very serious, and the whole world was moved by what happened to Cristina,” said Fernandez, after having met with several world leaders as part of the activities for the UN summit.
That is why he regretted that in the country he has reached “the extreme of someone triggering, thank God without luck, on Cristina’s head.”
